Corporate Actions and Dividends Data

The proprietary corporate actions and dividend data services is designed to keep clients informed of market changes before they happen

Overview

FTSE Russell has over 70 years of experience and knowledge of providing the financial community with corporate action and dividend information. Our proprietary Corporate Actions and Dividends Data feed is accessible to the financial community through a number of products and services.

The Corporate Actions and Dividends data is collected from official data sources such as stock exchanges, SEC filings, press releases, depositories, transfer agents and directly from the company.

The North American listed-securities market is constantly in flux. Our Corporate Actions feed allows clients to stay on top of the market changes

Our proprietary corporate action data was once used only internally to maintain our security master files and cross reference database. Today this content is accessible to the financial community via our Corporate Actions feed. This service provides the user with the ability to match positions electronically, ensuring accurate identification of issuers, as well as issues.

The service provides an automated option to process and integrate any issuer- or issue-level action on North American traded securities. Our data is collected from the stock exchanges, SEC filings, press releases, depositories, transfer agents and directly from the company.

Content and features:

Broad coverage: Coverage on all North American listed companies

Officially sourced data: Data is collected from official data sources such as stock exchanges, SEC filings, press releases, depositories, transfer agents and directly from the company.

Detailed content: Fielded terms and conditions on over 10 corporate action categories affecting both companies and their securities.

Flexible delivery options: Content distributed through intraday files or one end of day file via FTP in either XML or ASCII formats.

Electronic Dividend Service

Our Electronic Dividend Service provides you with the necessary information to make truly informed investment decisions

The Electronic Dividend Service provides timely information for dividend distributions, stock splits, stock dividends and much more for the North American equity and mutual fund market. This service provides mutual fund announcements than will help match positions electronically within your systems to ensure accurate and positive identification of issues, create ex-dividend date and record date calendars, flag distribution types for tax purposes and create a pending file for future dividends.

Content and features:

Broad coverage: Coverage of over 30,000 securities and mutual funds.

Officially sourced data: Data is collected from official data sources such as stock exchanges, SEC filings, press releases, depositories, transfer agents and directly from the company.

Flexible delivery options: Content distributed through intraday files or one end of day file via FTP.

Ex-Date Service

Be informed of the US dividends going “ex” on the next business day

The Ex-Date Service is a complement to our Electronic Dividend Service. This product notifies you electronically of all North American securities to be quoted “ex” on the next business day. The Ex-Date Service format offers the ability to program for electronic and automatic processing of the ex-date information.

The Ex- Date Service helps users comply with Section 46 of the Rules of Fair Practice. Section 46 requires members holding open orders to adjust the price and quantity of such orders by the amount of any dividend, payment, or distribution on the day that the security is quoted ex-dividend, ex-rights, ex-distribution or ex-interest.

Content and features:

Broad coverage: Coverage of over 30,000 securities and mutual funds.

Officially sourced data: Data is collected from official data sources such as stock exchanges, SEC filings, press releases, depositories, transfer agents and directly from the company.

Flexible delivery options: Content delivered twice daily at 4:00 PM (ET) and 6:00 PM (ET) via FTP. The 4:00 PM file is a preliminary list of securities whereas the 6:00 PM file is a final, which also contains all late announcements as provided by the exchanges.

Thorough and back-tested, the Indicated Annual Dividend (IAD) data is built upon a proprietary calculation that values the projected dividend payments over the next 12 months. The IAD data is calculated and processed by using complex formulas and automated systems to ensure the delivery of accurate and timely data. Indicated Annual Dividends are calculated as soon as finalized dividends are announced to the financial community. In addition, IADs are adjusted on the ex-dividend date for stock splits and stock dividends.

Content and features:

Broad coverage: Coverage includes mutual funds, North American listed equities, ADRs, GDRs, 144As as well as underlying foreign listed equities.

Officially sourced data: Data is collected from official data sources such as stock exchanges, SEC filings, press releases, depositories, transfer agents and directly from the company.

Flexible delivery options: Content distributed through an end of day file in either XML or ASCII via FTP.

Unit Investment Trust

An industry-leading UIT database for trust-related calculations and tax reporting

The Unit Investment Trust (UIT) service offers coverage of the entire North American universe of trust issues. This coverage provides the ability to accurately calculate principal and interest payments, while monitoring distribution types for tax purposes. We receive UIT data directly from the UIT sponsors and have built a sound relationship with each sponsor. Our staff is fully trained to ascertain this data which has allowed us to create an industry-leading UIT database.

Content and features:

Full coverage: Complete coverage of the entire North American universe of trust issues.

Officially sourced data: Data is collected from official data sources as well as major UIT sponsors.

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